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We want to change our ways

Without changing ourselves

Become smarter, none the wiser

Change our words but not our minds

Show me a way to behave

Behave as if I know

Emitting grammar, none the wiser

A ritual of programming

Cut the string that context ties

Action is born but meaning dies

Sentenced sentences to read

Absent thought and present deed

Cut the string that context ties

Action is born but meaning dies

Hide the words from heaven’s rays

At the shrine of behavior we pray

You call us, we answer

No part of this transaction

Requires us to share

Humanity

Can I steal your secrets

Without becoming a thief

Or worse yet

Becoming you

I just want another mask

Polished to a

reflective sheen

Mechanically pristine